IGERT: Integrative Graduate Training In Ocean Change

这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖将培养新一代的学者使用综合的、跨学科的、跨规模的方法来研究海洋变化问题。智力价值：人类活动正在引起海洋的物理和生物变化。其中一些变化威胁到当代海洋生态系统及其所支持的社会的持久性。海洋变化的规模和可能的后果是巨大的，但海洋变化很难观察到，对社会的许多部门来说也是不可见的。一个关键的创新是将研究问题置于问题驱动的、社会定义的背景中。学员将合作探索海洋状况、对海洋状况变化的生物和生态反应、它们对人类制度和福利的影响，以及在这一社会生态系统中建立复原力的机会。受训人员进行的研究将增进我们对海洋变化及其对生态系统和社会制度的影响的了解。该计划的广泛影响来自耦合系统方法。学员将准备好从社会-生态的角度解决海洋变化问题，与不同群体沟通，在学术界内外建立信誉，并公平地代表海洋变化研究中固有的不确定性。这样做，它们将满足社会需要，并有助于改变社会看待海洋和人类活动引起的变化的方式。我们将寻求扩大代表性不足的少数民族的参与，特别是沿海部落、阿拉斯加原住民和太平洋岛民的参与。这样做，我们将为可能首当其冲受到海洋变化影响的社区和文化提供服务。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，他们具有跨学科背景，所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训模式，在一个超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，促进研究生教育的文化变革。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award will train a new generation of scholars to use integrative, cross-disciplinary, and cross-scale approaches to investigate problems of ocean change. Intellectual Merit: Human activities are causing physical and biological changes in the ocean. Some of these changes threaten the persistence of contemporary marine ecosystems and the societies they support. The scale and likely consequences of ocean change are substantial, but ocean change is difficult to observe and invisible to many sectors of society. A key innovation is to frame research questions in a problem-driven, socially-defined context. Trainees will collaborate to explore ocean conditions, biological and ecological responses to changing ocean conditions, their impacts on human institutions and welfare, and opportunities to build resilience in this social-ecological system. The research performed by trainees will enhance our understanding of change in the ocean and its impacts on ecosystems and social institutions. Broader impacts of the program arise from the coupled-systems approach. Trainees will emerge prepared to address problems of ocean change from a coupled social-ecological perspective, communicate with diverse groups, establish credibility inside and outside academics, and fairly represent uncertainties inherent in the study of ocean change. In so doing, they will serve societal needs and help to transform the way society views the ocean and the changes induced by human activity. We will seek to broaden participation from underrepresented minorities, especially those from coastal tribes, Alaska natives, and Pacific Islanders, and in so doing, we will serve communities and cultures likely to be among the first affected by ocean change.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.